Between the Racist World and Ta Coates

By Alfonso Dupont on July 24, 2015

Format: Kindle Edition

Ta Coates is one of the great thinkers of the 21st century. Don't agree? Then you're on the wrong side of history.

Ta has written a book for the ages, chronicling such fascinating episodes as dating, doing poorly in academics because of racism, reading comic books, the racism of attractive white women he has asked out, what it was like to be in a down low relationship with Matt Yglesias for five months, cartoons, and the phenomenon known as "muhdik". Between the World and Me (a brilliant title that counterbalances the entire world with Ta Coates' genius) ranks with the Confessions of St. Augustine, if St. Augustine had done poorly in school and mostly just watched television and read comic books during his formative years. In fact St. Augustine is a rather trivial figure in Western history that you don't need to have heard of, he never even influenced society through highly praised magazine columns, and his books are very boring compared to reading about the adventures of men in colorful skin tight costumes.

During a long and rambling eighth chapter, Ta discusses his brave decision to disable comments on his blog. He shows how talking back to a highly paid media personality is an example of "punching down", employing a series of stories which usually involve noting that people who have promoted him are actually racist and did so only because they expected him to fail. There's also a moving account of how he literally wept on discovering how to turn on Microsoft Word's spelling and grammar checker.

As A.O.Scott has observed, Between Ta World and Me is "essential, like water or air", a truism you'd have to be a real hate-in-your-soul racist to deny. As a matter of fact, people who are too racist to read and enjoy this brilliantly spelled and grammar-checked volume are expected to die very soon because this book is literally essential, like water or air. An edition in which all of the book's passages are placed as dialogue between comic book heroes Black Lightning and Luke Cage is said to be in the works.

Like Ta's 14-year-old son, you may not be interested in reading through the many spelling and grammar corrected pages of this book, but even just having it on your bookshelf is important until the forthcoming graphic novel version arrives. How will they know you're not a racist otherwise? I personally enjoy reading it while enjoying water and air, two things that like this book are essential. Thus I give it the first star rating of excellence.

http://www.amazon.com/Between-World-Me-Ta-Nehisi-Coates-ebook/dp/B00SEFAIRI/ref=cm_rdp_product

Make sure to upvote it!

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2950280&forum_id=2#28448493)

how are people like coates so unaware of their navel gazing?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2950280&forum_id=2#28448503)

JUST PLEASE DON'T CALL ME A RACIST

nobody cares anymore dipshit

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2950280&forum_id=2#28449041)

I HEAR THE WHINE OF A CUCKSERVATIVE MAN.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2950280&forum_id=2#28449049)

now any genuine and reasonable criticism of Coates on facts is going to be ignored because of silly stupid racists attacks and allow him to take the moral high ground

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2950280&forum_id=2#28449711)

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2950280&forum_id=2#28449726)

he's had something like this a long time coming, it isn't even that extreme

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2950280&forum_id=2#28451130)

> There's also a moving account of how he literally wept on discovering how to turn on Microsoft Word's spelling and grammar checker.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2950280&forum_id=2#28449169)

how are you alive??????

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2950280&forum_id=2#28454840)

Have you even read the book? Typical whitey stuff to put down brilliant Coates and praise some lame dead white ppl like Kant

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2950280&forum_id=2#28449697)

"As someone who has dealt with LGBT issues personally (my son came out as gay and in an attempt to understand him I had sex with him), I was looking for a positive portrayal of transgenderism to help my wife and stop her homophobia-related divorce. After all, why should transgender people bother you? If they are having sex on the hood of their car parked in front of their own house, that is their business, not yours.

Well first of all in the first episode Jeffrey Tambor doesn't even have sex with anyone (naked) on camera. Was she being modest (Jeffrey Tambor should be referred to as a woman because her character is a woman)? Or was she or someone else unable to get over their inhibitions to realize that sex at any age and with anyone is perfectly okay and should be filmed. IT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING, BIGOTS, GET OVER IT!

I watched this with my son after we came home from shopping for studded leather jockstraps, and was incensed that this show seemed to be saying there was something "wrong" or "weird" about LGBTism. I am shocked that Amazon would actually celebrate such an assault on family values. The one scene with a cameo of Michelle Obama was alright, but the rest of it was simply hateful. We're normal, deal with it."

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2950280&forum_id=2#28450203)

This is pure gold. TYVMFT

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2950280&forum_id=2#28451115)

See postscript at the bottom of his review here:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R8EWDLNOUOHAT/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm

Rasqie you're in preftigious company.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2950280&forum_id=2#28456065)

the top reviewer is the former hype man for Tucker Max?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Holiday

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2950280&forum_id=2#28456111)

http://mpcdot.com/forums/topic/8520-racist-haters-just-downvoted-an-honest-blackbodies-lolyer/

this thread is essential reading

TL;DR cucky Florida lawyer appeals to one his favorite bucks about the EVIL RACISTS on MPC, buck tells him to get fucked and never email him again

lolyer cuck CONTINUES TO BEG FOR HIS APPROVAL and then asks him to delete all of his messages when he gets pwned

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2950280&forum_id=2#28456131)

http://mpcdot.com/forums/topic/8520-racist-haters-just-downvoted-an-honest-blackbodies-lolyer/page__st__80

http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3HYEL4MHVE0BG/ref=cm_cr_pr_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0812993543

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2950280&forum_id=2#28486207)